Walmart shoplifting suspect knocks employee to ground

Sanford police arrest 1, still looking for other identified as 'Jose'

UPDATED 6:19 PM EDT Oct 26, 2012

SANFORD, Fla. -

Police in Sanford said a Walmart shoplifting suspect was so intent on making an escape that an employee blocking his way ended up hurled to the ground.

Surveillance video shows a pair of suspected shoplifters, a man and a woman, heading toward the front doors of the store. When two employees tried to stop the pair, the woman stopped and the man made a run for it.

"He knocks her to the ground, he absolutely does, and he goes running out the store," said Sanford Police Lt. Jim McAuliffe.

According to a police report, Walmart employees witnessed the suspected shoplifters helping themselves to cellphone accessories and body wash. With the items in the bag, employees tried to stop them.

"When people get violent, it's my experience that it just gets increasingly so as they get more desperate," McAuliffe said.

The woman arrested was identified as Madeline Medina, 25, who said she just met the man with her and only knew him as "Jose."

The Walmart employee who was shoved to the ground suffered a minor injury to her knee, police said.